Flash Flood, Santa Fe
- When
- July 30, 10:00 PM MST to July 31, 5:00 AM MST
- Where
- Santa Fe County, Santa Fe
- Coordinates
- 35.507, -105.976 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flooding in New Mexico, July 30 to 31, 1997
Overnight rains of 1 to 2 inches in Santa Fe littered city streets with mud and debris and caused some minor flooding of several homes and businesses along the Santa Fe River in town. Additional sections of County Road 56 south of the airport were washed out.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
Overnight rains of 1 to 2 inches in Santa Fe littered city streets with mud and debris and caused some minor flooding of several homes and businesses along the Santa Fe River in town. Additional sections of County Road 56 south of the airport were washed out. The road had already been reduced to one-lane traffic during heavy rain nearly a month earlier.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Santa Fe
- When
- July 31, 2:00 AM MST to 5:00 AM MST
- Where
- Santa Fe County, 5 mi SW of Santa Fe Muni Arpt
- Coordinates
- 35.507, -105.976 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Colorado, July 30, 1997
- Wildfire in California, July 30, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 30, 1997
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 30, 1997
- Flash Flood in Hawaii, July 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 30, 1997
- Flood in Texas, July 30, 1997
- Flood in Texas, July 30, 1997
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 30, 1997
- Waterspouts in Virginia, July 30, 1997
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, July 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5611633, 5611634.